Essential Agreements

Another important component of the first day is establishing how our community will work together.  The students worked in cooperative groups to come up with ideas/rules that help a community work better.  This activity ties in directly to our first planner of the year:  Who We Are.  
 The central idea is that actions and attitudes affect our community.   
The students did a great job developing ideas in their groups.  One recurring issue that most groups talked about was that it was hard to hear the teacher if other people are talking. 
 As a result we made one of our essential agreements: Be a good listener. 

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